This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

🇺🇦 How Far Can NATO Go?

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The bogeyman of NATO expansion was Putin’s pretext to invade Ukraine. Can NATO act now to stop Russia’s war – or would that trigger nuclear conflict? Is a No-Fly Zone practical? Former NATO representative in Moscow and now Chatham House associate fellow John Lough tells Arthur Snell about the latest state of play with NATO and the long-term implications of the most dangerous security crisis in Europe since 1945.

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  • “This operation is not playing out as Russia expected. They thought the blitzkrieg would work – but they have fatally misread Ukraine.”
  • “Two generations of Ukrainians have been born into freedom. The heroism they’ve shown in recent days is extraordinary.”
  • “Will we see an incident at the border as NATO attempts to deliver ammunition to Ukraine? There’s a lot of danger there.”
  • “We are prosecuting our own hybrid warfare now – economic war… Russia will go back to the Soviet Union on steroids.”
  • “The disaster in Ukraine can only lead to Putin leaving office a lot earlier. And it may bring the entire system down.”
  • “Russia has entered a quagmire that will lead to an embarrassing defeat. No amount of state propaganda can cover up that.”


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